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FDA Plants Saboteurs To Destroy Supplement Industry?(!)? JoAnn

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Dec 26, 2003 13:22 PST

 

FDA Plants Saboteurs To Destroy Supplement Industry?(!)?

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FDA Plants Saboteurs To Destroy Supplement Industry?(!)?

By John Hammell, International Advocates for Health Freedom

 

 

Contents

Page 1

DSHEA, FDA and Consumer lab.

 

Page 2

Counsel for Responsible Nutrition.

CODEX.

Folic acid.

 

QUESTION: What do John Hathcock, PhD of the Counsel for Responsible

Nutrition, Henry I. Miller, MD of Stanford University, Todd

Cooperman,MD, and William R. Obermayer, PhD. of Consumerlab all have

in

COMMON?????

 

ANSWER: They all RECENTLY left FDA, and are EACH playing SIGNIFICANT

roles CLEARLY INTENDED to help pharmaceutical interests get complete

control of the dietary supplement industry, not only in the USA, but

world wide.

 

QUESTION: Are they PLANTS?

 

ANSWER: We'll never know for sure if any of them " left " FDA with the

INTENTION of serving in that capacity, but they might as WELL be

plants based on the fact that they came from the FDA and based on

their ACTIONS which deserve very close scrutiny as DSHEA [Dietary

Supplement Health and Education Act] and the supplement industry

world wide comes under

attack, (especially in the EU and Canada) and it appears that it

will come under VERY heavy fire in the coming Congress judging from

these

people actions as well as from a slew of negative press articles

attacking the supplement industry in the past year.

 

From what I can see, we're being methodically set up, in part

through the actions of these 4 people (and no doubt others that we

haven't discovered yet performing

similar " roles " HERE IS HOW WE'RE BEING SET UP: See (1)(2)(3) Below

and conclusion...

 

Written-Oct 2000

Last Update-Oct 2000

 

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FIRST: Read the outrageous article " Death By Dietary Supplements "

published in " Policy Review " (an inside the beltway magazine

published

by the Heritage Foundation which influences members of Congress) by

Henry I. Miller, MD formerly of FDA and now of Stanford University,

(but his former affiliation with the FDA is conspicuously missing

from the article so no one reading it would realize this unless

someone told them.) " DEATH BY DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS " By Henry I.

Miller, MD (formerly with FDA).

 

You will see that this outrageous article is intended to cast very

serious doubt on the safety and efficacy of dietary supplements,

strongly recommending various possible " solutions " to the alleged

" problem " .

 

This article is intended to be read by policy wonks all over

DC and to aid in a calculated campaign that's undoubtedly being VERY

CAREFULLY planned to introduce legislation intended to repeal DSHEA

 

 

Note that in his article, Dr. Miller mentions an entity which

sprang out of nowhere,

with no way of knowing how it got its start up money, called

 

" CONSUMER LAB "

 

SECOND: Check out (so called) " Consumer Lab " (STARTED BY 2 Former

FDA Scientists!!)

 

(Should Change Name to " FDA-ALLY-LAB " ) This brand new

business has received MASSIVE media coverage due to its negative

statements about the quality control in the supplement industry,

while

NNFA has received comparatively little coverage for its TruLabel

Quality Control initiative through which it is encouraging member

companies to focus more on quality control.

 

It sure comes as no surprise to me to

learn that Todd Cooperman, MD (Consumerlab President) and William R.

Obermayer, PhD (VP) each previously worked at FDA.

 

When I called them today I spoke with their PR spokeswoman, Lisa

Sabin.

I expressed surprise that they call themselves " Consumerlab " when

they charge $900 for each of their technical reports about dietary

supplement products that they analyze and find lacking.

 

I told her I couldn't afford to spend that kind of money to see what

their conclusions were about specific products.

 

Her response was that I should only buy the products that they have

favorably reviewed on their website. So I asked

her if she thought the supplement industry should be forced to full

HACCP GMP regulations (pharmaceutical good manufacturing practice

regs)

and she said " yes. "

 

I informed her that if this were to occur, many very

good vitamin companies currently engaging in superb quality control

would be forced out of business by gross regulatory overkill. Her

response was that to state that so many of the products they'd

tested

showed grossly substandard quality control that she just could not

agree.

 

My view after examining their site is that they have not tested a

wide enough range of products to be able to make such sweeping

statements,

and given that Cooperman and Obermayer came from the FDA, I find it

very difficult to trust " Consumerlab "

which I think should be named

" FDA-ALLY-LAB " or " FDA-PLANT-LAB " instead.

 

" Consumerlab " has issued

numerous negative press releases all of which attack the supplement

industry and are clearly intended to foster attacks on DSHEA.

 

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